Semiconductor stocks and China So far China’s approach to playing catch up is to poach talent and the main victim of these attacks appears to TSMC. “Chinese companies are offering two to three times [Taiwanese engineers’] current salaries to work for them,” said an unnamed Taiwanese engineer in a recent interview with Japanese media Nikkei. In … Read more
Mind Games & Perceptions We are going to address the issue of the human psyche, and how the top players utilise this data to relentless manipulate the masses. What people do not understand is that emotions and perceptions shape us in more ways than they are given credit for. The top players use this knowledge … Read more
Millennials Seek To Ban Offensive Speech Even though a larger share of Millennials favour allowing offensive speech against minorities, the 40% who oppose it is striking given that only around a quarter of Gen Xers (27%) and Boomers (24%) and roughly one-in-ten Silents (12%) say the government should be able to prevent such speech. … Read more
Tactical Investment Market Forecast Strategy: Our methodology is straightforward; we do not believe in extensive technical analysis or extensive time spent on fundamental analysis as history indicates that neither works well as standalone tools or even when combined. The best stand-alone tool that is hard to grasp because of its simplistic nature is Mass Psychology. … Read more
We called the Fake Bear Market 2019 Storyline Interestingly the experts started calling for a bear market in December right around the time the markets put in a bottom, clearly proving that fear does not pay well. So just before we get into 2019, the so-called experts or otherwise known as Jackasses started to bray … Read more
Ridesharing Wars; Apps vs car rental companies There is a war going on in the ground transportation sector. More business travellers are using Uber versus renting a car, and this trend is not likely to end soon. Uber and lyft garnered 68% of the ground transport expenses, with uber alone accounting for 56%. The Taxi … Read more
Behavioral Finance: 2nd Year Presidential Cycle Great For Stocks With Democrats in charge of the house, we will have a lot of gridlock and markets love gridlock for it means the odds of an unpleasant surprise coming out of Congress is low. Secondly, the markets have generally performed very well in the third year of … Read more
Economic deflation Venture funding for AI is surging, as evidenced by the chart below, and the trend is showing no signs of letting up; in fact, the movement is so powerful that one can almost start with certainty that technology-driven deflation is going to be a potent force to reckon with. Imagine small … Read more
Achieving Market Success: Your Guide to Navigating Market Cycles Updated March 2023 Updated views are posted towards the end of the article One of the best places to invest in is the stock market, provided one understands how the masses operate. Understanding the Market Cycle is also very important. The mass mindset is wired for … Read more
How to Navigate the Bull and Bear Market Hyperbole Updated March 2023 We’ve all heard “bull and bear market.” These two terms refer to trends in the stock market, but what do they mean? Generally, a bull market means stocks are rising, and a bear market means stocks are falling. However, there is more to … Read more
